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A mysterious Medusa head pays homage to Greek mythology within the cistern.
An engraving of the Basilica Cistern by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, from his “A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture”
A rendering of the Great Palace of Constantinople, one of the sites the the Basilica Cistern provided water to during Byzantium times
A map showing where the Great Palace once stood, the Hagia Sophia, and where the Basilica Cistern would be
An image from the 411 Agatha Christie suite at the Pera Palace Hotel--this is the desk in the room.
Tags: chr_1932, geo_Istanbul, thm_perapalacehotel
A drawing showing the Tokapi Palace, noted with a "1," and the Hagia Sophia, noted with a "3," both of which the Basilica Cistern supplied during the beginning of Ottoman control
A portrait of murder-mystery novelist Agatha Christie.









